Just Doing My Job

This week HP tells a "Real Story" claiming more performance than IBM on the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. And if they did their job, they would have told the whole story.

You see, for this benchmark, it is important to look at all the data. That means the database server hardware and software as well as the application hardware and software. And if you look at the database server you would see that HP needed over 3x the number of database cores that IBM needed to get only 1.5x the performance.(1)

To do the benchmark analysis job well, you need to examine all of the data available. Not just the parts that make your story more real.

This week President Obama spoke with the pilot who skillfully landed the Airbus 320 in the Hudson River. The pilot told him, "Me and my crew, we were just doing our job."

"And it made me think, if everybody did their job -- whatever that job was -- as well as that pilot did his job, we'd be in pretty good shape," Obama said.